FEATURE: An Amazing Concert Experience! (Concert Review)
The following is a review from theBLACKsummersnight tour MAXWELL featuring Chrisette Michele and Common w/Bilal in Dallas, TX at the American Airlines Center October 12, 2009. Enjoy!
The crowd was pretty heavily populated with couples, a lot more men and of course the single ladies were in attendance. When I arrived Chrisette Michelle was finishing up her set with “Fragile”, her set must have been short because we did not arrive that late.
Next up, Common, who ROCKED the house with old school Hip-Hop finishing up with “Universal Mind Control”. Bilal was on stage with Common and accompanied him on some songs. Common performed a little pop and lock and did some break dancing. He kissed one of the ladies in the audience on the lips and took a sip of someone’s Margarita which I found funny. His DJ was off the hook! Loved Common’s freestyle about Dallas, too. The young lady sitting next to me, said she didn’t know much about Common but she was now a fan.
There was about a 40 minute intermission, while they broke down Common’s set and prepared for Maxwell. His performance began around 9:50 p.m. I had been worried about my seats which were on the floor to the right of the stage (my right, his left) but as fate would have it, the seats were about one row back from where the Y stage intersection. So, he was front and center and in my face ALL NIGHT LONG. Thank you, Jesus!
He wore a black suit, black shoes, a white shirt with black around the shoulders and a white tie. About 20 minutes into his performance, the jacket and tie were gone. But during one of his disappearances underneath the catwalk, he emerged with a black vest over his white shirt.
Max worked for his money last night, dancing, doing splits, working those hips and the catwalk. He did his version of the stage dive early in the program, running and gliding backwards into the catwalk, landing a about 12 feet away from me, on my side of the stage. Let the frenzy began! So close, yet so far!!
Of course, throughout the performance there was the usual banter about the women being so fine in Dallas, asking, “What is in the water?”, about him seeing a little of Dallas on his run that afternoon on Maple Ave. He must have stayed at the Crescent Hotel?
His set included “Loving You”, “Fistful of Tears”, “Sumthin, Sumthin”, a slower version of “Simply Beautiful” (yeah, slower than usual), “Fortunate”, “Playing Possum” (Hod and LaTina played guitar, Keyon Harrold on Trumpet), “This Women’s Work” which he free-styled into a political statement about the war in Iraq, Healthcare, the soldiers, and President Obama (loved it!). Oh, let us not forget “Til The Cops Come Knockin’”, my, oh my, oh my, Max worked it!! If anyone can remember more of his set list please post.
Of course, he ended with “Pretty Wings”, after he left the stage, the audience must have applauded, cheered and screamed for what must have been about six minutes before he took the stage again to perform his anthem “Ascension”, which started out in a capella then into the full version with singing, a pretty loooong version.
He was cheesing so hard during “Ascension,” the girl in front of me said, “Oh my God, that smile, he is soooo beautiful,” I patted her on the arm and said, “I understand, baby, I understand.” When he walked down the catwalk passed us she rubbed his leg, looked at me and said, “I had to.” At the end, he was having such a good time it was almost as if he did not want to leave. Honey, he didn’t check his watch once during the entire performance. Thanks, Max!
Finally, the band came out onto the catwalk, introduced themselves, Max introduced himself gave a little speech, said goodnight and that he loved us. I got a hand shake and a hand slap. Alas, no kiss. Still, it was an amazing performance and a wonderful night. I’m still feeling the buzz.
“An Amazing Concert Experience!” feature concert review for The Latest Maxwell News presents “Fan Concert Experiences“.
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Bama_Gurl October 13th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Thanks! Great review! I love reading everyone’s experience at the various venues. I’m in Austin and I ‘thought’ about going to the show in Dallas or to Houston 2night but I caught the show last week while visiting ‘da A’. I do have a friend that’s driving there 2nite tho’ (I have been pimpin Max across the nation
).
I don’t know if Maxwell truly knows how his presence & music (as well as the BAND’s) positively impacts people. ‘This Woman’s Work’ (from ‘MTV Unplugged’ not the studio album versions but shout out to Kate Bush) touched me back in college as it reminded me of my ‘college crush.’ We never hooked up but I had ‘those feelings’ that just would not go away, but we are life long friends. I always think of him when this song comes on… always! He’s currently serving in Iraq, so when Max stopped singing TWW and started talking about the war in Iraq, I was literally GONE and fell down in my seat! I cannot describe how awesome I felt though! Max definitely opens you up emotionally and that’s RARE! esp with me…
Oh yeah, just curious, what local song did Max play before he started his set @ Dallas?